Sherren Family Tree » George Harold Stone (1904-1988)

Birthday January 9, 1904

• The temperature on January 9, 1904 was between -0.4 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
  • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Chic Young, American cartoonist († 1973)
• 1901 » Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress († 1991)
• 1902 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei († 1975)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)
• 1907 » Earl W. Renfroe, African American orthodontist, educator, and activist († 2000)
• 1907 » Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch († 2013)